Well, you just want to buff the weapon and make the shield feature more boring.
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It shouldve been an assuault engineers weapon.
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they will probably add it to the research tree soon. It happens with almost every event gun
When did that ever happen?
I can only remember 2 times that something that was an event got made into a tech tree item and that was during the merge. Everything else stayed unobtainable.
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Realistically you would never parachute with a gun that is that heavy and with already pre mounted shield into your fake LMG.
You would break your arms/wrists and even hit your head and kill yourself and maybe your teammate. They should have those stupid shields sitting inside a box and only when they pick them up then be able to assemble it. DF is really turning this game into some anime version of WW2.
Since we have heavy gun shields that doesn’t affect your movement and give you over double EHP why not to add them to the tanks too or maybe planes? Also sell it for $40.
If it’s DF’s idea of having balanced game i’m leaving after my premium expires in a few months.
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Here’s my crazy suggestion, remove their Type Hei, give them the Type 99 LMG para-variant, and then readd the Type Hei as a
- research
- gold order
- event item
- premium GROUND MG SQUAD
- event GROUND MG SQUAD
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Just make it br5
And
Allow ALL paratroopers the option to change their equipment. Not just Soviets. That feature locked to a single faction is retarded (dare I say biased 
)
And problem solved.
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Will not happen…
People paid for the squad in real money so i highly doubt they want to refund anything.
And if they just swap the weapons and pretend that nothing has happened they will anger their whales which they cant afford to lose in order to keep a F2P game alive.
Any drastic changes to premium squads will lose the trust of their paying costumers and you will end up with drop tank 2.0 electric boogaloo where all the people who paid for a premium squad got screwed over.
Something like a BR change might be OK but reworking their gimmick might be a bit much as some paid for that gimmick.
Honestly I don’t think it was a “feature”. I think they were rushing to just get a Soviet Para squad out so they didn’t bother giving them a unique weapon.
I think it is ok for Paratroopers to have a signature primary weapon, it’s no different than any other Premium or event squad. Then we might as well say let Premium/ events swap out their weapons too
I do believe there should be research Paratroopers for all factions, those will be the ones you can customize
Hasnt stoped the devs from adding the 100 round MG paras…
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It’s a feature.
Because BOTH Sov squads have it, not just the event or premium one, both.
ALL FACTIONS should have that option.
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While it is a little silly that Paratroopers are dropping with cumbersome MGs right out of planes, we can’t be too strict now. (Although I think it would be cool for Paratroopers to drop unarmed and are forced to get everything from the box……but that is a crazy dream for another day)
I just believe that Paratroopers should have primary weapons that were specifically used or made for Paratroopers. These countries didn’t develop weapons specifically for paratroopers for no reason.
Now to be fair the Vickers MG was used by some paratrooper and commando units so in my book it’s good
How would you change it?
They can go and suffer, they deliberately bought something that is pay to win, they deserve nothing but shame.
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How curious, that it seems only the soviets get exceptions to the rules like this.
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This 100%
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It’s in sort of the weird spot blurred between automatic rifle and MG sort of like the BAR. The standard Type Hei Auto is more closer to say the AVS in practice so that’s why it’s a Riflemen weapon
I think the fact that it had an MG barrel as well as a shield means it’s more in the MG family, so I would say it should be an MG class weapon
All factions should have the option in a tech tree paratrooper squad. Premium squads should have unique weapons, including the Soviet Paras.
Maybe the AK obr. 45
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Trch tree as well. I’ve asked so, sooo many times…
An entire gameplay mechanic, even if overnerfed like paras are, shouldn’t be locked behind event or premium.
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I’m gonna repeat myself again here though a warning I don’t care about squad itself but people pointing to historical flaw of this
The only historical flaw with this squad is they drop with their shield on which again this is a game and most people overestimate that shield . German helmets from Assault ENG squad have 83% damage reduction that’s enough to cause most weapons not being 1 shot to head yet nobody seems to complain this will be just another squad and in time it will get power creeped and will be forgotten